Ethnic Cleansing 3.0: How Israel Became the Transfer State
Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood is being emptied of its inhabitants. Under bizarre and outrageous pretexts, families are being evicted from the homes they have lived in for decades. In the Gaza Strip, hundreds of thousands of displaced people are being crowded into uninhabitable refugee camp. Some will never return to their homes, of which nothing remains. The head of Israel's National Security Council called an emergency meeting on "encouraging the voluntary emigration" of Gazans.
Himnuta, Elad, the Jewish National Fund, the National Security Council, the Israel Defense Forces, the Sephardi hevra kadisha burial society and the Israeli Civil Administration are all government bodies or nonprofit organizations working toward one goal: Ethnic Cleansing 3.0. After the successful cleansings of 1948 and 1967, the next stage of the Zionist enterprise that serves as the bedrock of the Jewish state has arrived. Everything is going according to the phased plan.
There has been a recent string of seemingly spontaneous events over the past few days. What looks, on the face of it, to be the anarchy of rioting settlers – extremists bent on avenging October 7 – has a greater purpose. The right has an orderly plan and a clear strategy, and it is hard at work to implement it. While the left has lost its way, enmeshing itself in hollow clichés and all but comatose since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the right continues to shape an irreversible reality.